Episode 2691 (FULL VERSION) CWSA 12/16/24

Date: 2024-12-16 | Duration: 1:18:27

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More drone theories and Trump is best de facto president ever

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oh so good well I have to start by saying that last night in the man cave that I do just for the subscribers to locals uh we discovered that you can make pictures of public figures using grock their new

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public figures using grock their new image generator and you could have those public figures appear to be uh very interested in each other now it's not going to do porn but if you'd like to see a public figure making out with another public figure apparently you can do that because people were sending me a lot of images of me making out with Michelle Obama and a few other people so after that was done I said to myself huh I wonder I wonder how well this works so I started putting in the IM is myself and other beautiful famous woman just to [Laughter] see now it doesn't do anything uh you know that's beyond PG it's all PG rated or maybe G but uh it is weirdly fascinating to see how how just picture

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fascinating to see how how just picture perfect I can do of myself with another person I've never met in person it is it is scary so let me tell you yeah let me tell you the uh the future is going to be wild meanwhile uh the X app is the number one news app at the moment imagine being the one that the news wants to kill and he becomes the new the number one news app I like that but the problem is as others have pointed out isn't X only the number one news app because it's where people go to make fun of all the news if all the mainstream news went away tomorrow there wouldn't be anything to talk about on X X wouldn't have anything it would just be independent people who look at the mainstream news and decide how true it is but if we didn't have any there wouldn't be much to talk about so
so um according to the New England Journal

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um according to the New England Journal of Medicine if you're using AI as your doctor it could have even worse cognitive biases than human doctors so they did a test and they found that depending on how you prime the AI what question you ask you might get a response that's a little biased even more biased than a human doctor so well AI seems to be an amazing thing for knowing what question to ask your doctor it's really good for that by the way I don't think the doctor love it but if you want to just know if you're asking the right questions and did you leave anything out talk to AI before you have your doctor appointment it really makes a difference it's great doesn't have all the exact answers yet but it certainly is good way to check that you've covered all your bases um according to uh the new Atlas publication chronic pain can be lowered

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publication chronic pain can be lowered by better quality diet regardless of body weight so if you improve your diet so you're not eating junk food junk Feud junk food um
apparently um apparently it uh makes your pain go go less now I have to admit that's not one I would have known if you had just asked Scott um but it makes sense because a good diet will give you less full body inflammation and you would think that pain would be quite related to inflammation depends on the pain but mostly so yeah apparently eating well makes you feel good surprise um there's a study in yahu FAS the older workers are the happiest workers you know why that makes sense the older workers are the happiest workers cuz after a certain age you're

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workers cuz after a certain age you're just the delighted that you have a job at
at all if you're over 65 and you have any kind of a job you're probably delighted you know uh turns out a lot of people at that age don't even need the job it's just the only way they can have a social connection so they they love just having their social connection and hey a little little extra money doesn't hurt so that doesn't surprise me but uh what's interesting about worker happiness is that workers are happiest when they're youngest and when they're oldest people are the least happy in the prime of their life so during those child raising years not so good at all nope not so good so before you have children pretty happy after your children have moved out of the house pretty happy but uh raising children turns out it's hard to be happy there's a different kind of Happiness though that when kids are in your life which most most of you have

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which most most of you have experienced you you have this funny experience where if you just took any parent and you say hey excuse me are you a parent well yes I've got a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old uh and you say well how's the quality of your day today they'd say well not not great I got to drive this kid all over and one of them sick so I think I got their cold and and you know wa too many things to do and I've got to work late but I also have to go to my kids game it's it's a nightmare but if you ask them are you happy they would say oh yeah I'm really happy so during the middle of your life if you have kids in your life you would find that people will self-identify as happy because they're really glad they have kids and they have meaning and they have something important in their lives but it's really hard so the reason I'm talking about this is that uh we have

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talking about this is that uh we have this decline in birth rate and the the biggest reason there's a decline in birth rate in my opinion is it's just too damn hard to be a par a parent now I've been a just a stepparent which usually is easier but I can tell you if I did not if if I hadn't entered that when I'd already made money so that I could afford things like you know somebody has to watch somebody or you know basically money makes everything easier obviously but if I didn't have money and I tried to have kids or step kids it looks really hard it looks really hard so uh we need to make it easier to be a parent I guess that's my bottom line there according to Global newswire Nano nuclear energy and Digos technology we're going to get together to make a micro reactor in Upstate New York they'll have 16 mows

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in Upstate New York they'll have 16 mows of power now this is only interesting because the trend for micro nuclear reactors which I and all the smarter people think are going to be the future um and at the same time just more to that point the paler CTO is saying that the uh our Fleet of ships seagoing ships um should be be powered by nukes and that it would lower inflation now there's an idea imagine if the only thing we did was uh authorize and approve and build uh Shi shipping contain what would you call it the big ships that have containers on um if you turn those into micronuclear the way where the way our nuclear submarines already work if we already have the technology and it's been working Forever on nuclear submarines would it be that much harder to put it on a tanker I'd worry more about Pirates

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on a tanker I'd worry more about Pirates then but I suppose that's not the biggest problem in the world according to unusual whales and Fortune Magazine uh first reported 55% of hiring managers notice employees juggling side gigs during work hours 55% of your employees are doing a second job while on your clock 55% now that was always true you always had people doing side gigs but 55% the uh the character Wall-E in the dilber comic uh was patterned on one of my co-workers who used to sit in the cubicle behind me and he would run a second business from his cubicle his first business was you know whatever the job was was but he had he' made a mistake with some uh confidential um with some confidential

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confidential um with some confidential information and they said well we're not going to fire you because you've been a good employee except for this one mistake but we can never promote you so he had a job where he could never be promoted and he was a young man so instead of doing his job you know and trying as hard as he could he just he just started a second business and he just ran his second business from his cubicle he was doing lighting and was it Lighting and Sound I think it was mostly sound for big outdoor events so I'd hear him answer the phone under the name of his other company that's the funny part answering the phone as the other company anyway um yeah that's a pretty big problem I don't know how you would manage an employee without assuming that they have a second job um Kyle bass who knows a lot about investing and he follows China he says China's economy is experiencing uh its largest financial collapse since

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largest financial collapse since 2002 so bond yields are down and banks are he call he says insolvent and leveraged at 350% of reported GDP now I saw in the comments somebody saying that that might be a little bit alarmist and that China is a centralized economy and they have lots of tools that they can make sure their Banks don't fail and stuff like that so they're probably not you know it's not like they're minutes from falling off the edge of the Earth or anything but uh one more indication that China is not thriving um there was a alarming report at the New York young Republicans Club I guess uh a young adviser to president Trump a 27-year-old named Alex brtz i' had never heard of but he has apparently a good reputation people said good things about him but he was speaking uh on stage and he just started slurring his

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stage and he just started slurring his words as if maybe a stroke and then he just collapsed and like you know dragged down the whole Lecter and so he I guess he came around backstage and he was you know alert and seemed okay but then reportedly he passed out again in the hospital run way to the hospital so we don't know what's wrong with young Alex brtz but uh a lot of Republicans seem to like him and we wish him the best so keep an eye on that um yeah some are saying it was dehydration I don't know Does dehydration cause you to slur your words maybe I don't know uh well CNN's getting some heat you know I saw this story and I kind of passed by it the first time so I remember seeing the video of CNN apparently being there when one of the

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apparently being there when one of the notorious uh Syrian prisons was being liberated after the rebels took over from the government and it showed one particular Syrian prisoner who was being freed and I remember people saying that he didn't look like he was a real prisoner because he didn't look like he was you know damaged Enough by the time in prison and now we find out that the alleged prisoner was actually well one of the one of the prison's notorious torturers so he worked for the government he wasn't a prisoner he was apparently pretending to be a prisoner for the benefit of CNN's cameras and so he just acted like he was being discovered in the prison did that really happen um it it makes me wonder if the if the story that is fake news is entirely fake do we know he wasn't just recently put in that prison I don't

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put in that prison I don't know I don't
um so we'll keep an eye on that uh did you know according to report in Wall Street Journal that people will change their spending habits based on whether their party is in power and won the election so when Democrats win national election they spend more because they feel more optimistic and same with Republicans so at the moment Republicans are looking at more big ticket stuff like cars and houses uh because they have optimism about
Trump and I have uh two comments about the Democrats number one uh it's going to be tough to be a Democrat for a few more years because they hated it the first time Trump was President they're probably not going to like it that much better this time uh but I wonder does this make democrats undatable for four

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this make democrats undatable for four years I wasn't planning to date one but if you're so unhappy that you're changing your spending habits and they do seem to have genuine you know mental distress over this imagine if you're in the dating pool it seems like dating anybody who was a Democrat would be a bad deal right now because they're all going to be unhappy and bitching about stuff if you if you were dated Republican hey how's it going Republican great looks like the golden golden ages kicked off got any problems H none really that's worth mentioning everything seems to be going great have you caught the vibe the vibe is all positive a lot of unity going on hey Democrat how are you doing well it's the end of democracy we it hasn't happened yet but any moment now the big old Orange monster will be stealing our democracy and our bodily autonomy and uh we're all

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and our bodily autonomy and uh we're all doomed we're all doomed so I'm going to say uh maybe maybe a little less dating of democrats for four years um so Trump for the first time ever his favorability ratings are higher than his unfavorability ratings according to RCP average daily wire is talking about this the first time so did you know that never before has he had more people favorable than unfavorable and you might ask yourself why is that what what is he doing right and the answer is everything
you as I said before he ran the greatest campaign uh even the people on the losing end are saying consistently okay the Republicans were really smart Trump ran a great campaign okay what he did was smart you know and it's just one

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was smart you know and it's just one after another uh the people in the losing end are saying yep they just did better he was smarter van Jones is saying it I've seen that Jessica tarof saying that it was brilliant to ship the migrants to the blue cities so even the Democrats are noticing that the the side that looks for merit instead of identity did way better let me say it again the team that says Merit should be the thing you look at outperform the team that says identity should be the thing you look at
what what did they think was going to happen as I've said before Dei destroys everything it touches and it destroys the fastest and hardest whatever Dei touches soonest and most aggressively and that would be the Democrats the

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and that would be the Democrats the entire Democrat Party was soon you know they they were fast on the Dei and most aggressive because people are watching and it it's completely destroyed just as the theory would suggest but I saw a podcast it looked like a Democrat poster who was doing some uh some focus groups and what the focus groups were saying and that it was a focused group of people who were who had been non-trump supporters usually Democrats and had voted for him for the first time so they didn't vote him for the first they didn't vote for him in the the first two elections but this time they did and so the question is why now why why would you change your mind now and do you know why the reason is not surprising but it was kind of encouraging here's the reason that Democrats at least and it's a focus

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Democrats at least and it's a focus group so it's not a it's not a scientific poll but several people said the same thing which is Meaningful to me that they were a little unsure about Trump still but they liked that he picked RFK Jr so RFK Jr did move votes because his credibility and people liked his topic especially the food and the you making sure our drugs are safer so RFK Jr's message was so strong and he was so credible that when he said you know what I can work with Trump as long as I could get my stuff done and then Trump helps him get stuff done um people love that and I love it too because one of my biggest issues was our food supply and I didn't see anything that was going to be done by just Republicans so you throw RFK Junior in there and I'm like whoa you suddenly went from most of the

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you suddenly went from most of the things I like but not even my top issue didn't even get my top issue my number one issue but now they got it now they got my top issue food and they got all the other issues too so you throw that in there you throw in Elon Musk and you know uh basically the argument is that Trump assembled the Democrats of the 1990s because even Trump was a democrat in the 90s so um yeah between you know David sex and Telsa gabard and Bill Amman he's not in the team but he's you know switch sides uh Joe Rogan switch sides not on the
the team but yeah it looks like this pirate ship idea of bringing people from more than one group together is having a modeling effect on the public so when the public sees that these public figures can work together you know being

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figures can work together you know being being as diametrically opposed as you could possibly be in general but when they had something they both agree on they could work together that is really un
un Ying that's as unifying as you could possibly get I don't want everybody to agree with me I want people who do agree on the things that we do agree on to work on that you know and if that's the only thing Trump gets Unity on is that yeah for the things we agree on well we can work with that like the border for example that'd be amazing it'd be better than anything we've ever seen in this country really so the pish ship is working uh meanwhile Trump continues to do what I call the new CEO move to make a good first impression and hit the ground running as they say and to make it look like he's just succeeded before he even Starts Now succeeding before You' started is just so strong persuasion it's just completely baller

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persuasion it's just completely baller and so and so now the uh soft Bank CEO must son he's going to visit the US the US today and he's going to make an announcement with Trump so I love my de facto president I love the fact that the world is treating Trump like the one they need to talk to they understand he's de facto president not regular president but still everybody's just using common sense and what is the Biden Administration complaining about so far they're not I don't know why you you do kind of expect them to complain a little bit that um Trump's acting like a president but I feel like they get it too you know somebody needs to act like a president and they don't have anybody who can do it
it so so apparently uh soft Bank CEO is going to put A1 billion investment in the US focused on building out

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the US focused on building out AI thinks he can create a 100,000 jobs somebody was saying that's no big deal 100 billion and 100,000 jobs somebody smarter said no that's just the first order 100,000 jobs creates 100,000 people to buy stuff so 100,000 new consumers you know uh all the all the supply chain that would Supply these businesses it's uh big 100 billion might be a multiplier to something like half a trillion it's all
all done let's talk about those drones you know you love them you love the drones So Adam kininger who you know as being famous for not really being good at anything in politics he he may have been good in the military I wouldn't know but he's really bad at politics uh so he used to be a

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politics uh so he used to be a republican change sides became the worst worst politician in the world so he's a pilot and he says he's spent time looking at all the videos of the drones and he says they're all airplanes they're all airplanes so what was he looking at do you think he looked at all the videos or do you think there somebody got to him and said Adam tell them it's all airplanes because they're obviously not all
all airplanes they're they're really obviously not all airplanes according to hundreds if not thousands if not millions of observers so he thinks it could be a mass hysteria and he points out that there's nothing illegal about flying over a military base and that anybody can do it

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military base and that anybody can do it now that's the first time I've heard that do you believe that that's true do you believe that it's legal to fly over a military installation obviously it's going to depend which one I don't think you can fly over all of them but are there some of them say in a metropolitan area where it's no big deal it's just one other thing that's on the ground so I'm going to put a question mark next to that one I don't know that you can always fly over them but maybe if you're let's say if you're a commercial airline you've got a flight plan and you're a trusted entity maybe I don't know so I got a question on that one all right um so he thinks that if anything if drones are involved at all it's probably just some tests but it's way more activity than just some tests so I'm going to rule that one out I did a little uh research because I was trying to figure out uh what is the lowest

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to figure out uh what is the lowest height that these aircraft should be at if they're regular aircraft so a regular aircraft if it's over a uh populated area is not supposed to be below 1,000 ft uh of the highest thing that's nearby so whatever is the highest building that's in the immediate neighborhood they have to be at least 1,000 ft above the highest nearby building if they're in a sparse ly populated place they could go down as low as 500 ft and if they were over let's say an ocean and you know it's a private private plane or something over an ocean they could go even lower than 500 ft because there's nobody there
anyway um will I debate you on the thing I already agree with no but thanks for asking um

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so that's so keep that in mind I mentioned that because yesterday was it yesterday I drove home from walking the dog yes I drive to where I walk the dog because there's a good place to walk the dog but it's hard to walk walk to it anyway I look up and there was a uh a really large jet looked like a private jet um but one of the biggest ones you know like a billionaire a private jet and it was going directly over my house and I'd never seen a jet that low um to me it looked like it was lower than 1,000 ft has anybody had the experience of let's say a daytime jet that you thought was lower than you've seen in the past or am my imagining it do do you think it's just my imagination because I'm sort of tuned to it and so my particular activators are just picking it up and I wouldn't have even noticed before but it was a big Jet and it was low enough so I

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was a big Jet and it was low enough so I could see all the details of the components of the jet now that's too low right for a jet when was the last time you had a jet go over you unless you were right next to an airport when was the last time you had one go over where you could see all the parts like in in detail I I think it was closer than a th000 F feet but I don't know what a th000 ft looks like really so I don't know what's going on there but um Robert Malone you remember Robert Malone from the pandemic he was one of the inventors of the MRNA mRNA platform and he he became anti- I won't say antia but you a cautious person about that whole thing but uh his hypothesis is that it's a a federal scop and that the point of the scop is to get um is to get a law passed and

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to get um is to get a law passed and apparently there's a law being considered that would um put lots of regulations on personal drones huh what do you think do you think it's a scop so everybody in the country says no we can't have drones running around uncontrolled just at the same time that the government is considering I think it's extending something that's already there but the government is considering the question of how much to regulate drones that are owned by individuals so as they're considering how much to regulate drones we have a drone crisis all over the country that's scaring the public could it be that the entire thing is a psychological operation to make sure that the military has clamped down on any drones that they don't own so it's easier to protect the country because

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easier to protect the country because you wouldn't want to say to the country hey we're going to take your drones away because they can be turned into weapons and then all the people who like guns are going to say um you're not going to take your gun you're not going to take my guns and you're not going to take my drones that I can weaponize why in case I need to weaponize it that's why in case I need to weaponize it I want to be able to because you know the government so what do you think do you think that it's a major s up I see my YouTube is down but looks like he came back up do you think it's a major scop and the that the military or the government is trying to make us afraid of drones so we'll favor our government Banning drones or at least Banning anything that would look dangerous as a drone I'm going to say

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drone I'm going to say maybe but it doesn't really match you know my experience of life um yeah it doesn't match it it's not impossible it's not impossible but it doesn't really match what I think here's what I think I think if it were a scop it wouldn't be so extensive and it also wouldn't be in every country because we're getting reports from you know all over the world about too many drones so I don't know I would say I'll put that you know third or fourth on the list of possibilities but I'll tell you my current drone theory if you haven't heard it I have up updated it I have abandoned the idea that they're looking for um radiation or chemical weapons now the radiation part I abandoned because I just happen to know somebody who worked in that field and the person who worked in the

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field and the person who worked in the field Tom sour um says you know trust me I have experienced in the field because he apparently he searched for wmds when he was in the service and there are ways to look for radiation but without giving too much away about the way we do things I'll just say it wouldn't be this way so in other words you would if you had complete access to the ground you know it's America so they have access to the ground the last thing you would do is try to fly over it to get the radiation signal you would you might fly over it but you'd mostly have stuff in the ground cuz you want to you know really get close to the source so it's very unlikely that these drones have some kind of souped up radiation detectors at the height they are so if you're going to be a th000 feet in the air your detecting isn't going to be that great so so probably not it's

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that great so so probably not it's probably not about detecting
anything um so here's my current theory I'll start with my assumptions see which ones you agree agree with by the way the thing I'm going to read to you I posted and last I checked it had 800,000 uh reposts and um margerie Taylor green said it sounded like a good hypothesis and I've never seen more positive comments so almost everybody who reposted it said oh this is very feasible this might be the answer and it might be so this is based on my personal Talent stack which I improved by 5% by listening to somebody who knows about how you search for radiation so I had zero knowledge about how to search for radiation yesterday and now I have a little bit just a little bit enough enough to deal with this

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this question but I'm also the Dilbert guy so I I'm really tuned into just how any big organization gets anything done so I'm going to use my filter as the guy who knows how any big organization does any big thing and it's going to explain everything okay so here's my assumptions number one uh the future of warfare is drones everybody agrees right the future of warfare is drones also it's going to happen really fast well it is happening it's happening right now and whoever can most quickly increase their drone assets is in the best shape the United States always is running fast to be the F you know best military power in the world so if you know that drone Warfare is the future and you know it's right now like when I say the future it's like now now now now

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say the future it's like now now now now really really urgent you know you've got several hotspots you've got the Ukraine War you might want to have some leverage there you the Middle East is a mess Iran is big question mark you really really want to have lots of drones and you want to be the unambiguous leader in the good ones now we also know that we have a drone pilot shortage so what happens if you know you need lots and lots and lots of drones but you don't have enough Pilots obviously you would do massive training of pilots and you would do it as soon as possible now I'd like to make a comment for the NPCs we're going to be piling into make a comment go NPCs this is where you shine say the most obvious thing that you say in this situation I know it's going to appear who's the first NPC you're going to say it wait for

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NPC you're going to say it wait for it the training Pilots to run the drones go come on I'm disappointed there's got to be at least one NPC watching this all right I'll do it for you the NPC says oh bcot don't you know that the drones are autonomous and they don't need any pilots and they're run by the AI and stuff that's what you're supposed to say it's the most obvious thing to say to act like you're a little bit smarter than me you're so dumb you don't know they don't need Pilots nobody needs Pilots for their drones okay here's what's true there's not one kind of drone there are lots and lots of different kinds of drones some are only piloted by humans such as if you an infantry person you had a little handheld drone and you just wanted to see the enemy on the other side of the Hill that would not be an AI drone that would just be one you operate

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drone that would just be one you operate and it would be completely piloted by human but that's not what we're talking about secondly there would be of course some Dr drones that are basically fire and forget meaning that you might you might put in the coordinates but then when once it goes it's just going to do its thing and maybe be a suicide drone but that still requires a pilot in The Limited sense that somebody had to pick the target program the Drone know which drone they were dealing with you know make sure it was safe to launch uh and then then probably at some point make some human decisions when the Drone reaches its Target of whether that's still really a good Target or you know maybe they need to you know jog over and do some other thing before they get there who knows so my presumption is we're not anywhere near getting rid of Pilots for drones how many of you will agree with me so far

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far um what does musk say drone big drone Wars are coming yeah so Elon Musk was saying that we haven't seen how big the Drone Wars are going to be it's going to be epic so we know we need Pilots we know we don't need don't have enough we know we're going to need massive drone buildup and we know there's no such thing as having enough drones no such thing as having enough drones there's no such thing as having enough drones cuz whoever has the most wins every drone battle you know if they have good ones so so we should be absolutely in a panic mode in the military manufacturing drones as fast as we could manufacture drones do you so far do you do you follow the assumptions assumption drone Wars are for sure we need them right away we must be manufacturing them like crazy and we

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be manufacturing them like crazy and we need a lot of Pilots even if the pilot is just putting in the coordinates somebody needs to do it so put all that together where would you train if you had new drones with new technology and you had to quickly train lots and lots of people well NPCs go this is another NPC place so if you're an NPC and I say they might these might be training missions you say Scott let me tell you with my vast NPC knowledge that if you're going to have a training facility it's not going to be over the densest populated place in the country it's not going to be there it would be in a remote location and then you could test all day in your remote location here's why that's not

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smart that would be if you need to do a little bit of training for a few drones yes I agree with you if you were going to do a little bit of training for a few drones and you weren't in any hurry you would find a nice remote location and you would do all your training for your handful of pilots in that one place however if you decided that drones are the future of warfare there's no such thing as too many drones you're making them as fast as you can and you don't don't have enough Pilots for them what do you do then do you wait until you've got a nice remote place and move all of the assets that you need for testing which would include a battleship or not a battleship but some some uh some aquatic military asset that they can launch it from because most of them are launched from ships so you need someplace that's close enough to the coast so that rules out a lot of your remote locations

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lot of your remote locations you need ideally all right here's where my Dilbert experience comes in you've got brand new drones a new let's say new class of drones and they're being and people are being trained on them who has to be there for the whole thing the manufacturer the manufacturer of the drones has to be wherever they're being tested in a big way it's not like just send a guy it's not like well we sent one of our Engineers to your remote location you know just ask Bob if you have a problem no they would put massive staff anywhere it's there's being testing and training they would be doing the training actually and they would do it not just in a remote location but NPCs here's where you get your minor win yes they would test some drones in remote locations but what else would they do if they have massive need for training and massive need for drones what else would they do

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they do they would train right here because it's the fastest and everything's here if you train on the drones in New Jersey what do you have you've got the fleet so you can fly from ships at Ocean because the ships are here and and it's their home base I guess you you have military bases that you can fly back and forth to which is very much what you'd be doing with a drone um sometimes transporting but other times just finding a Target and you would be going over lots of residential areas and it would be easier it would be probably far more beneficial to train where there's a lot going on in the ground so that you can recognize things at night and you would also probably train at night because most of the missions would be at night because if they turn their lights off they're hard to see and there and therefore hard to shoot down now if you're only 1,000 ft up so give me give me a fact check on

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up so give me give me a fact check on this if you're a th000 feet in the air and you're a drone can you be hit by Small Arms fire can somebody just put their machine gun in the air and just started shooting in your general direction if you're a drone and you're only 1,000 fet in air so it seems to me that they have the option of turning on lights if they're operating in America and they have the option of turning off the lights if they're in a danger zone
so um they would train at night because that would be the best time to do missions and they would train in the United States even in populated areas because that's where all their assets are for training that's where the manufacturer is it's where the Bas is it's where the Navy is just off the coast so what you should see is on both coasts of the United States uh lots and lots of drones in the air cuz the Coast are where you have all the assets and you

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where you have all the assets and you can kind of test stuff fast if you're doing it massively and again if you only had a few pilots and a few drones and you weren't in any big hurry you would go to some remote Desert location and train as long as you want it we're not in that situation we're in the we need as many as we can get right away training is critical as fast as you can you would do that in the coast because that's where all the assets are more importantly if one of these drones goes down you don't want it to be on a foreign country because they're going to get a hold of it first and they're going to reverse engineer it because you can't trust the other country even an Allied country you couldn't trust them totally so everything makes sense for training um and then you're going to say but why would you do it over in an urban area to which I say have you noticed that when people say they're hovering it's never over their house house in an urban area but if they're

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house in an urban area but if they're passing by is often over an urban area so my guess would be that the drones are as um let's say as um good a quality as all the other aircraft that can fly over your city so if a regular aircraft can follow fly over your city and a drone has the same let's say reliability and it's not in war and it's not doing any it's not doing any Maneuvers it's just flying over that that would be allowed as far as I know that's completely legal to fly over a city with a drone that's obeying all the L the rules it's high enough and low enough it's got the lights on and maybe it registered slight path or whatever has to do so when you hear their when you hear they're doing things like hovering which might be misidentified by the way sometimes it might look like it's hovering it's only because it's coming in your direction from a from a great distance it would look like it's stationary so some of it might be

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it's stationary so some of it might be misinterpretation but my guess is if what they're doing is training they might be doing the dangerous stuff over the ocean just like you would want them to do you know see if you could do figure eight and whatever but if you need if you need to just go back to base let's say to get charged up or deliver something you're just going a straight line at the height you should and maybe that's what people see in the city so no real danger as far as I can tell because they're not sending up experimental drones over the city they would be sending up things that are really really really well flight tested and not in any specific danger there's nobody shooting at them all right um so so we're ruling out sniffing for radiation because it's just not the way you would do it it wouldn't be optimal for that and the other thing is we've heard that the flights seem to stop around 11:00 p.m. every night but they've been going for

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they've been going for months what possible thing would you do that you would do massively as soon as it's dark but you'd be done by 11: p.m. that really suggests training because if they were sniffing for if they were looking for terrorists or looking for something they would do it after 12 if it were some if it were such a national emergency that they would put this much energy into it they would work after midnight because it would be something existential to at least New Jersey if they're taking off at 11: saying all right looks like it's a quitting time I'll see everybody uh not in the morning not in the morning but rather when it gets dark again that sounds like business as usual to me so and and even if you look at the theory that it's it's a scop even a scop you could save a lot of money compared to what they're doing if what you wanted

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to what they're doing if what you wanted to do was a c up where you've got lots of you know lots of drones in the air did you need 50 did you need 50 no not really you could do a S up with three drones and you just have those three drones Buzz one city that's near near enough to DC that somebody hears about it
um I see your question ex boss man but I'm not going to repeat it it is funny all right I'm going to repeat it because it's funny and the comments somebody used the uh the impolite word for people who are shorter than average um but said that the that there seems to be a shortage of little people are we sure are we sure that the little people that we saw more often in public have not just become drone drone

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Pilots which is actually it's like funny but the more you think about it the more you think why not I mean if jockeys if you pick jockeys because of their weight and their height wouldn't you also pick drone Pilots if you had a tiny little drone wouldn't you also pick them by their height and weight and and if the little person was you know fully functional in every way except height and you've got a 10t long uh drone maybe I I don't think that's the thing but all right so if it's true the really stopping at about 11:00 every night I would think that that's pretty good evidence that it's a training training Mission the so the only thing that seems unusual is the quantity of it and I disagree with um kinzinger um I I had the same experience as kininger and I want you to hear this clearly all right because later if you

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clearly all right because later if you if if I get something wrong and later you attack me I want to I want to make sure you hear this part I have personally seen no video that looked like anything but an airplane
some video I've seen that clearly were not airplanes but were far more likely an artifact of how it was filmed or sometimes they came from years ago sometimes you can't tell what the source is but everything they had a source I can identify they look like normal aircraft to me now what people say is no Scott what you're noticing what you're not seeing is how many of them are there are acting strange and how low they are and they and they're loud Etc but I'm not there in
in person so my my belief that these are not regular airplanes is based on credible people you know people in in one case somebody

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you know people in in one case somebody I know personally um who say no I stood there trust me they're definitely not airplanes so I don't believe any of the videos because I personally have ever seen any credible video of anything that looked anything but a commercial airplane with a person running it now there might have been some hobby drones that look like hobby drones but that's not what the problem is so as clearly as I can let me say I haven't seen anything that looks like a drone I've only seen things that look like airplanes to me but I do trust I do trust the reports because you saw the reporter for news I think it was news Nation reporter said oh I was poo pooing it myself until I saw it myself like oh I'm completely convinced there's something going on here so those are the people that I'm choosing to believe at the moment could all of those trustworthy

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moment could all of those trustworthy people be in some kind of uh you know um Mass hysteria yes yes I could I think it's unlikely though uh I'm usually the one who's the first one to say Mass hysteria if you've been following me for a while you know that I I jump to mass hysteria right away for stuff like this but I'm not there on this one I I wouldn't say I wouldn't never be there it wouldn't take a lot to push me into Mass hysteria but I'm not there yet I I think it's just training but it does suggest that there would be a big battle that we're expecting and I expect that that might have something to do with Iran so we'll see uh meanwhile Mitt Romney had some good things to say about Trump's success um Mitt Romney was on some he was talking to Grace today on CNN and he said uh that the Republican party is

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said uh that the Republican party is basically the the magga party he said that Trump succeeded in making the Republic is the party of the middle class and that's the kill shot right there if you're a Republican and you can acknowledge which I would agree is true that Trump has successfully moved um what is middle class over to the at least enough of it over to the Republican side you can't take that away from him and you can't be Republican and say that sucked you just have to say we always wanted to do this nobody did it except Trump trump gets the win and I like that mney who has plenty of reasons to be anti-trump because they haven't gotten along he has plenty of reasons he decided that under the current situation that he's going to be pro- success so he didn't say he's Pro Trump he said that Trump has succeeded in ways

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he said that Trump has succeeded in ways that are important and that probably JD Vance will be the 2028 nominee because he's well well spoken and he's worked with him apparently um Romy had had some really bad words about JD Vince in the past and I loved what I loved what uh Romney said about that so when it was brought up that he had said some really pretty bad stuff about JD Vance he said that was long ago he said it was long ago and since then I've worked with him good that's a good answer I I like the it was long ago because that shows me somebody who can get over something if you tell me that yeah I I was not happy with this but that was long ago I just think oh you have a you have a workable brain that when new information comes in you can change your mind I like that yeah long ago I used to think this now I think that no more questions I have no further questions if

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questions I have no further questions if it was long ago you changed your mind okay um
and so he says Trump deserves legitimate credit for expanding the party uh he says that the part Republicans are magging now no question and then he went further he said that the Democrats he said he said the Democrats in trouble I don't know how they recover now that mirrors what I said so I've been saying it's not just that the Democrats are down but normally when a party is down it's obvious how they would recover oh well just you know tweak your policies get a better candidate you'll be fine next time it doesn't look like it this time does it it looks like they've destroyed the very structure of everything and so Mindy says yeah uh they lost their base union members leaving and now people see Democrats as College professors and quote woke scolds I love those two words together

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scolds I love those two words together woke SC old s it's okay to be woke and sometimes it's okay to be a scold but if you're scolding me about wokeness we're not we're not going to be friends I could take a scolding and get over it and you know some wokeness I can even accept but nope don't be a woke scold that's as bad as you can get meanwhile Governor Whitmer Democrat um says she's uh willing to work with President Trump she said quote I know Donald Trump cares about Michigan Fox News is reporting now people are talking about this in ways I've never heard people talk about it meaning working with the other side who says it this way who says I know Trump cares about Michigan is isn't that a sort of extreme

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Michigan is isn't that a sort of extreme for politics I mean extremely friendly normally you would say something like well uh I don't like anything Trump's doing but you know it's my job to work with him so we'll we'll do as well as we can isn't that usually all you say normally you just say I'll do the best I can you know it's my job but she went so far as to say that Trump cares about Michigan that is not a gift you'd want to give to your enemy now it could be that because he can't run for office again but she's clearly setting him up for Success since when do the Democrat Governors set up Trump for Success at least in the wording anyway so to me that was remarkable and then uh you probably know the story but there's a Democrat Mega donor um named Lindy Lindy Lee who's kind of turned on the Democrats for wasting a billion dollars and not

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wasting a billion dollars and not getting elected and she's getting a lot of uh attention lately Gateway punded is reporting on this and but she says the Democrats now have quote a stench of loser hanging over the party and that people are pissed at Obama now that's funny the stench of losing is so heavy that people are mad at like a guy two presidents ago they're so mad that they're mad at a guy two presidents ago and they're pissed and they want their billion dollars back I think um so that's that's worth noting but uh I heard some some uh idea that maybe Lindy Lee would run for governor of California and if she did she might be running at least in the primary against KL
KL Harris now others have said that now KL Harris is not own direct interest in

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Harris is not own direct interest in running for governor but everybody thinks it's sort of a the most natural best thing she could do um I heard somebody say that if she entered the race it would clear the field meaning people would just say oh she's going to win there's no point in running that might be right she she might clear the field and the the Democrats might say you know we just need to prop her up and that's all you would need in California you would just need the Democrats to say yes
anyway so if you got Mitt Romney say I'll give him a chance you've got Whitmer saying I'll give him a chance you got a DNC Mega donor saying wow the Democrats ruined everything she's not quite saying I'll give Trump a chance but she gets it she understands why he won meanwhile Daniel Baldwin U brother of the other Baldwins was on the pbd podcast and he claims that I guess common knowledge in Hollywood that the

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common knowledge in Hollywood that the celebrity inner circles are saying that LeBron James does have a diddy tape and that it was already purchased on the black market so that somebody already owns LeBron James because they own the blackmail tape that LeBron James would really like to own how much do you think LeBron James would pay for a diddy party tape that showed him doing we we imagine something he wouldn't want them to see how much do you think he'd pay well it would depend of course on what was on the video because it could range it could range from oh we don't like that you do that to um why are you in jail so we don't know what it is so I won't I guess I shouldn't speculate um but this would be this would be a massive story

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can you imagine can you imagine if these were really for sale imagine if you are Elon Musk you're sitting there and you read the news you see that the LeBron tape is for sale and you say to yourself if I just make a post on X saying I'm willing to buy it I wonder what would happen because he wouldn't care about the cost right he could just pay whatever he want but he could own the he could own LeBron if you see LeBron start to back uh Maga it means that musk is the one who bought his his blackmail tape now that would be funny now here's the way to do it if you end up buying LeBron's black m tape and let's say what you want him to do is you know back Republicans let's say um you don't want to be illegal and say

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um you don't want to be illegal and say uh Lebron I will blackmail you if you don't do what I want that that's illegal you go to jail for that so you go the opposite way say LeBron good news I bought I bought the tape so it's off the market and LeBron might say oh good so you'll destroy it right and then you say well I didn't want to destroy it but I've taken it off the market you don't have to worry about it but you could just change your mind and Shout to somebody anytime you wanted right I could but but I wouldn't do that because I like you LeBron you and I are good friends by the way uh I'd like to chat some more but I'm going off to uh Trump rally uh my good friends uh were all in mega uh they say hi and you'd be very close to LeBron becoming a republican just to make sure the the video didn't get out now to be clear I don't want to malign LeBron I personally

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don't want to malign LeBron I personally have no knowledge that he did anything wrong or that even any tape exists so I'm not confirming that there's anything he did wrong or any tape exists and I'm hoping that there is none I hope that he perfect law-abiding citizen and it will always be that way but I'm just telling you how to Blackmail somebody you don't say the words you just own the tape and say you know I own your tape I sure like Trump so don't take my advice for it if you become a black mailer it's probably illegal no matter how you do it um Mike Davis who's a republican attorney type we see in social media a lot he says Manhattan da Alvin brag and his team illegally conspired to violate the constitutional rights of Americans he said so did Jack Smith fonny Willis Tish James Chris Mays Matthew Graves their offices he says they must face a Federal Criminal probe under some law and then they

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and then they said I like that Republicans are ironically or jokingly sarcastically saying no one's Above the Law you know because I say it a lot too because I think it's funny now but um as much as I don't like lawfare and I would not want to be associated with anybody who pursued it I think the names that he named have done enough in public that looks sketchy enough to me that if these particular ones get I don't want to say lawf fared but investigated that would be appropriate and my my sense of you know what is right and ethical and moral and gives enough freedom to the country but not too much yeah they should be investigated it does feel like there were crimes there and big ones like we're not talking about jaywalking if it were jaywalking I'd say h who cares um we're talking about something that was going to change the very nature of the

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going to change the very nature of the country forever and maybe destroy it it wasn't they they were an existential threat to the entire country in my opinion because a few more years of Democrats I think would have been been the end of us just in terms of national debt if nothing else here's the funniest story of the day um back when Biden took over when he first got elected he fired some 4,000 uh Trump appointees one of them was uh
uh Spicer um so what's his first name why am I forgetting Spicer's first name um who worked for Trump and he was one of those people has uh tell me Spicer first name

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uh Sean Spicer yeah thank you so Sean Spicer um so he was one of the people who got fired by Biden so he took it to court to try to get it reversed or did he so he took it to court that he got fired by Biden and he argued that because the the appointment had some kind of a term to it that he couldn't be fired until the term was over but the the court the judge specifically he ruled that that the president could fire him so Shan Spicer challenged Biden uh but Biden won so it turns out that Biden could fire him even though Trump had put him in a position to had a term now this is important because there might be people people that Trump wants to fire that also were appointed by Biden and also have terms here's the funny

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terms here's the funny part the reason that Sean Spicer challenged it was not because he wanted his job back in the Biden Administration he challenged it so he could lose the case because in so losing he would know that the next Republican who came in could fire all the Democrats in those jobs and so they will so the claim uh and I'll put it in a quote from uh Sean uh what no one ever understood was that this was not about actually getting back uh on the board meaning the job he had because my term had been uh had been expired for months oh uh it was forcing them to argue in the affirmative that they had the ultimate authority to fire anybody at any time which they did and the court accepted it so basically Trump has that power now 40 CH 40 chess right there that's some 40 chests

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chess right there that's some 40 chests by the way there is probably still time to get your dilber calendar if you go to dilbert.com and follow the link to the sales page it's the only place you can get it can't get it from Amazon can't get it from a store only from that one online source so we have uh What uh uh nine days till Christmas the odds of getting it in nine days are not 100% not 100% but you'd almost certainly get it before January 1 so if there's somebody you know who just can't live without a dilber calendar uh and you don't absolutely have to have it wrapped under the tree you got plenty of time all
right um and uh I've also got a number of books the one that will change people's lives that they haven't seen is reframe your brain this one is on Amazon with my other books like when bigly is reupdated that's one that tells you how Trump uses his persuasion and then had

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Trump uses his persuasion and then had it failed almost everything and still wi big the second edition the one with the blue cover um people love it I guarantee that and also God's debris the complete works if you look at all my books you'll find something for everybody so something for everybody this Christmas and I guarantee if they're readers they'll like them um Democrats are not and I guarantee if they're ever like to Dilbert they'll like the calendar um you can't lose and I would like to give you two
two Christmas recommendations that I have no I have no connection to okay so I have no Financial connection to them these are just things that I like a lot number one you you may have noticed I often wear this back warmer in the morning I love this back warmer I if you've never experienced wearing a back warmer it's really feels really good so

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warmer it's really feels really good so I I started wearing it because I had some you know just a back strain a few weeks ago it's all good now my back is great but I keep wearing it because I like it I just love how it feels and it makes my back feel better the other thing for the same purpose was was I got a uh uh one of these incline tables where it holds you upside down by your ankles now you probably say to yourself I don't think I want to try that that sounds dangerous and what if I can't get back up well the one I got as an option to go back 60% so you're never really you don't feel like you're out of control and it doesn't stretch your body too much but it feels great it feels great so I think it's helping with my back cuz my my back has never felt better literally it's never felt better my in my entire adult life and it's called a teeter so that that's the model now I only I only know I bought one and I'm really happy with it but it's spelled

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it but it's spelled te t er they have several models you can see them on Amazon so I recommend them if anybody has a any kind of a back problem for which that would be indicated but I'm no doctor so don't use it unless you're sure that it would would be safe for you then my last advice is this is a weird one if you do any any kind of uh video like Zoom or you do podcasting there's something you need really badly and you see one you see behind me in my back shoulder there's a it's a printer stand so if you went to Amazon you said search for printer stands it would be something that sits above your keyboard I guess or something you put something under it you could put paper under it but it turns out it works perfectly for raising your computer to eye level so right now if you're looking at me on on video you can see that I'm the perfect level if I took this

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level if I took this away which people make the mistake of doing I got to talk to Alan dtz he needs one of these badly so this is without it so you're looking up the the looking is not so good and the looking down is even worse so there are different heights so depending on the height of your table and the height of your chair um so I got two of them one one is a little taller than this one so I use one in the man cave and one here so watch how much better it is when I raise it back
go perfect now here's uh here's another one um I got a I don't know what they're called it like a desk pad or something desk Pad but I'll show it to

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you so it's sort of a a soft long
thing it just sits is where you're working I don't know if you have this problem but do you have a cold elbow problem anybody have that like you want to work on your kitchen table or something you want to work on the kitchen table and you put your laptop there and then you put your your arms on the surface and it's too cold well this will keep your arms warm but also it's soft so if you're doing a podcast it removes this uh this whole area of U whole area of echo CU my microphone is just above it so it removes the Echo and it looks kind of good and it just feels good leaning on it and using it so I have two of them and they're they're awesome uh the other one if if you know somebody who's into drawing uh but they can't afford a big

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drawing uh but they can't afford a big big Wacom 27 in thing which would be I don't know $3,000 something like that uh if they want something that's under a thousand but they're serious about drawing so it's not a it's not a kid story um get the move ink that's the little uh drawing tablet that I use now and it's also sold by Wacom but it's m oov i n k so if you go to the Wacom site w m and search for the move Inc device it's really cool cuz it's really light and it works really
well um if you need yeah if you need uh Scott Adams merchandise uh and you don't know the link just search for coffee with Scott Adams merchandise and it will pop up with the uh the mugs and the U hoodies and the

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uh the mugs and the U hoodies and the shirts and the hats uh I don't recommend that gift for anybody except consumers of this content all right so you got enough ideas so you got the dilber books I guarantee the dilber one of those dilber books will be make somebody really happy you just have to pick which one makes more sense for that person um the dilber calendar the inversion table the desk pad and then what's called a printer stand but it's better for you're zooming getting your computer to the right height for zooming those are the things that might make people happy some of my favorite favorite possessions they work really well all right I'm going to talk to the uh locals people privately for a minute uh thanks for joining everybody on the other platforms Rumble and x and YouTube even though YouTube had some problems today I

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though YouTube had some problems today I hear all right locals I'm coming at you in 30 seconds